79 Things We Can All Agree On

On the occasion of the seventy-ninth year of Esquire. Because even though America is rife with serious social divisions and toxic political partisanship and mutual contempt from sea to sea, there are some things that, regardless of party, religion, or class, we can agree are great, lousy, true, false, beautiful, stupid, delicious, or crazy.

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

Even his staunchest enemies now regard his presidency as the good old days. He has become the rare consensus figure in a country that has lost all sense of consensus. So we talked to him about where it went, and how we might get it back.